Another shot of my fave little BOP, the Black-shouldered Kite. It's got a half-eaten rat this time. :)
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Great shot Akos, one of our favourites as well.
Very nice Akos, looks like the thrill of capturing the last photo you got of these has given you impetus to go have another look for a possibility and it has paid off. It is nice and clear, you can even see remains of the rat on the beak.
Regards
Shane
Wow ...great shot Akos..... the true definition of Take away food :) what a great moment to capture. You should post more of yhoru amazing work for us.
Sunshine Coast Queensland
Excellent BIF Akos. A bonus with the prey item.
Cheers, Owen.
Great shot Akos. However on my taste picture needs a little color adjustment. With respect or your copyrights there is my modification.
Regards
Alex
Hmmm, don't agree Alex :)
Top shot Akos as usual mate......must be costing you a fortune in rats.....Lmao
Jokes aside, well done mate.
What did you actually do Alex? I cannot see too much difference? My original looks good to me. :-)
I have to admit Alex, Akos and Bill, I was trying very hard to see the difference too . But the shot still stands as a great one I reckon.
Sunshine Coast Queensland
Akos, I'm only removed blue color and decreased highlighting in overexposed white areas.
Regards
Alex
Shot is impressive certainly.
Regards
Alex
Thanks Alex. Is your monitor calibrated?
Both my camera and laptop render colours quite accurately for my liking. I cannot see any blue that I would find bothersome, based on the late afternoon lighting I've experienced on the day. In fact, if I move the colour temperature slider back by about 500K, I will notice some blue tones that are somewhat cooler and not quite as nice as I recall. On another note, there is nothing overexposed in the whites. Sure they look bright, but there is all the detail I would ever need if I pull the exposure back more than I did originally (from 0 to - 2/3 of a stop reduction). The histogram in the RAW file shows no clipping (overexposure) of any whites. It may look bright, but white is very bright, even in late sun. Especially when surrounded by more mid-tones, such as here.
For your benefit and learning, I've attached a screen grab of the file as it opens in ACR. As you can see there is no highlighted triangle in the histogram box, which indicates a perfectly exposed image. If I had blown the whites, the right side triangle would be RED. Or if I blocked the blacks, the left triangle would be blue.
Thanks.
Dear Akos, sorry I 've not seen your response before. May be our misunderstanding is result of different calibration and profiling of equipment used. But I used two more laptops to observe your picture and each of them showed blue color on the birds head and feathers. Next, I sure you did not overexpose during shooting. But sometimes in result of cuting right side of empty area of histigram some white parts of picture becomes overhighlited. I could not see any details in some internal area of the picture after magnification of the image. There are no histograms at all on some particular areas.
Of couse, that's just my opinion that may be wrong. Feel free to express what do you think on that matter.
Regards
Alex